SHOCKING FATALITY.
TREE BLOWN DOWN.
KILLS THREE PERSONS.
Taihape, June 5
- A terrible fatality is reported from Ohakune whereby three people were killed.
It appears that a man named Brown, the keeper of the refreshmentroom at Ohakune station platform, was liring with his wife and child in a tent.
It was found early this morning that all of them had been killed by a tree falling, which was lying across the tent.
The tree fell across the mother and child, crushing their heads to pulp. It struck the father across the groin, and a spike, Bin by 4in, passed right through his body. All were killed outright, and the furniture was smashed to pieces. A neighbour, 15 yards away, heard nothing but the screaming of the gale. It took a relief party two hours to saw up the tree and release the bodies. The occurrence cast quite a gloom over the township, where deceased were well and favourably known.
A gang of seven men, working on a mill tramline, had a narrow escape, trees falling all round. ' A tree fell on another whare while 'the occupant was in bed, and smashed the place, but he esciped.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2663, 9 June 1908, Page 5
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